The creative duo of Taylor Leonhardt and Jess Ray – going by the moniker Mission House – debuts the lyric video for “Never See The End” today. The track was featured on their 2019 debut self-titled album.
Having met five years ago in their hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, Ray and Leonhardt became friends and started to collaborate on new music to share at a weekly worship gathering called Feast & Feast. Although both singer/songwriters were individually leading worship and releasing their own original solo music, they quickly began performing at shows together and felt a pull to write music with one another for their community. The result was simple, joyful, folk/rock worship that provided a tangible space for intimacy with friends and with God.
The vision of becoming a duo is intertwined with the mission of Feast & Feast, which Jess Ray originally dreamed up one summer at a lake. “It’s just wild that God gave me some of the vision for it long before it developed,” she offers. “The idea was just to be a blessing, to plant ourselves somewhere and be something that brings life and resources and goodness to the area around us.”
“More than anything, we hope people find peace and joy in God,” Leonhardt concludes. “I think music can be such a friend to us in both the good and hard times in life. We really want our music to feel like an actual room that people can walk into and encounter a real, living God.”
